Pacific Latin America in Prehistory

Michael Blake is a professor and archaeologist in the Department of Anthropology and Sociology at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada.

Preface
AcknowledgmentsIntroduction
1. Introduction to the Archaeology of Pacific Latin America
by Michael Blake

Part I: Mesoamerica
2. The Marismas Nacionales Project, Sinaloa and Nayarit, Mexico
by Stuart D. Scott
3. On the Origin, Evolution, and Dispersal of Maize
by Bruce F. Benz
4. Late Archaic Period Coastal Collectors in Southern Mesoamerica: The Chantuto People Revisited
by George H. Michaels and Barbara Voorhies
5. The Emergence of Hereditary Inequality: The Case of Pacific Coastal Chiapas, Mexico
by Michael Blake and John E. Clark
6. Early Formative Societies in Guatemala and El Salvador
by Mary E. Pye, Arthur A. Demarest, and Barbara Arroyo
7. Economic Patterns in the Development of Complex Society in Pacific Guatemala
by Michael W. Love

Part II: Central America
8. Precolumbian Fishing on the Pacific Coast of Panama
by Richard G. Cooke and Anthony J. Ranere
9. The Origins and Development of Food Production in Pacific Panama
by Dolores R. Piperno

Part III: South America
10. Wetlands as Resource Concentrations in Southwestern Ecuador
by Alfred H. Siemens
11. Early Formative Societies in the Tropical Lowlands of Western Ecuador: a View from the Valdivia Valley
by J. Scott Raymond
12. Agricultural Evolution and the Emergence of Formative Societies in Ecuador
by Deborah M. Pearsall
13. Andean Coastal Adaptations: Uniformitarianism and Multilinear Evolution
by Michael E. Moseley
14. The Development of Agriculture and the Emergence of Formative Civilization in the Central Andes
by Thomas C. Patterson
15. Archaic Period Maritime Adaptations in Peru
by Karen Wise
16. Archaic Adaptation on the South-Central Andean Coast
by Lautaro Nunez
17. The Late Preceramic-Early Formative Transition on the South-Central Andean Littoral
by Mark S. Aldenderfer

Contributors